- Gloria Lee: My cookbooks were a Bible in every kitchen of America.
- Leland McKenzie: Lady.
- Meredith Tudor: Looking isn't about measuring cups and ingredients anymore. It's about the total dining experience.
- Gloria Lee: You're always for a shortcut, but I never thought you'd stoop to stealing my recipe.
- Meredith Tudor: They're not your recipes.
- Leland McKenzie: All right. That's enough.
- [Meredith is making origami]
- Leland McKenzie: And what - What is that?
- Meredith Tudor: Origami. There relaxes me.
- Leland McKenzie: Oh. Mr. Venturelli?
- Stan Venturelli: I'm finished.
- Leland McKenzie: Well, we've obviously reached an impasse. Miss Lee, you can't produce that spy. Miss Tudor, you can't explain why your recipes are so strikingly similar to Miss Lee's, I had hoped that we could reach some sort of compromise here, but I, I don't know.
- Gloria Lee: How about a cook-off?
- Meredith Tudor: A cook-off? Didn't does go out with quilting bees?
- Leland McKenzie: No. What, what would that accomplish, Miss Lee?
- Gloria Lee: There are 16 recipes in dispute. We each cook our own version and then see if there's any significant difference. If there isn't, that proves she's a thief.
- Leland McKenzie: Oh, well, who do the tasting?
- Jack Sterns: You would.
- Leland McKenzie: Oh, oh, no, no, that would be highly irregular and I'm really not qualified for that.
- Jack Sterns: You eat, don't you?
- Stan Venturelli: And you're the one who's arbitrating this case.
- Leland McKenzie: Would you agree to a cook-off, Miss Tudor?
- Meredith Tudor: Why not. My recipes are unique.
- Leland McKenzie: All right. Bring the food in on Thursday, but only very small portion.